Towards the Moon

In making this piece, Jane wanted to embrace her love of nature – but more than creating a purely figurative image, she also wanted to evoke a symbolic and atmospheric feel with the work. She has cherished a fascination with Lepidoptera since childhood and this has become evident in her recent cyanotype work.

The idea for this print began with tree silhouettes against the skies, which she took from one of her many photographs. She began playing with a mixture of negative and positive images. Most of her cyanotypes are made by changing her photograph to a negative image, which prints out as a positive in the cyanotype.

However, Jane liked the ethereal effect of trees against a moody night sky which resulted from exposing a positive image. The “moon” is simply a circular portion of the sky which she made into a negative and layered it onto the main composition.